A method for remote monitoring of an industrial machine having a relay based or PLC based controller includes steps of providing a hardware interface module for directly interfacing with the relay based or PLC based controller of the industrial machine, directly interfacing the hardware interface module with the relay based or PLC based controller to identify occurrence of power cycles of the industrial machine, registering the hardware interface module through a portal accessible through a network, communicating the occurrence of the power cycles of the industrial machine detected with the hardware interface module to a database in operative communication with the portal and storing the occurrence of the power cycles within the database, and providing a user interface indicative of performance of the industrial machine based on the power cycles of the industrial machine detected with the hardware interface module and stored in the database.
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2. The method of claim 1 further comprising directly interfacing the hardware interface module with the relay based or PLC based controller to monitor temperature associated with the industrial machine.
3. The method of claim 1 wherein the aggregating the data is based on a type of the industrial machine as indicated by the manufacturer and the model and wherein the method further comprises analyzing the data to provide for real-time benchmarking for the type of the industrial machine.
4. The method of claim 3 wherein the set of industrial machines are spread across a plurality of different facilities.
5. The method of claim 4 wherein the plurality of other industrial machines are further spread across different enterprises.
6. The method of claim 1 wherein the user interface further provides for describing an organization including facilities associated with the organization, the industrial machine, and a plurality of other industrial machine in a hierarchical manner.
8. The system of claim 7 further comprises a temperature sensor operatively connected to the hardware interface module to monitor temperature associated with the industrial machine.
9. The system of claim 7 wherein the computing platform further provides for aggregating data based on type of the industrial machine and analyzing the data to provide for real-time benchmarking for the type of the industrial machine.
10. The system of claim 9 wherein the set of industrial machines are spread across different locations.
11. The system of claim 10 wherein the set of industrial machines are further spread across different enterprises.
12. The system of claim 7 wherein the user interface further provides for describing an organization including facilities associated with the organization, the industrial machine, and a plurality of other industrial machine in a hierarchical manner.
14. The system of claim 13 wherein the user interface provides for displaying aggregating data for a set of industrial machines wherein the industrial machine is within the set of industrial machines and presenting resulting aggregated data for the set of industrial machines through the user interface and wherein the aggregation of the data is performed using the manufacturer of the industrial machine and the model of the industrial machine.
15. The system of claim 13 further comprising at least one sensor operatively connected to a controller of the hardware interface module and wherein the at least one sensor is an accelerometer to detect machine vibrations.
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